Hershey, Cuba: squatter living in the long abandoned housing for workers at the dismantled sugar mill. Most of the wooden roofs have collapsed over the years in the stone building but a few citizens live in the remaining units. Hershey in Cuba was once the sister city to the company town of Hershey Pennsylvania providing all the sugar for Hershey chocolate production in the US. The town was expropriated following the 1959 Revolution. In 2002 Cuba closed over half of its sugar mills, being unable to produce sugar for less than the world open market price due to inefficiencies. Hershey is now a town with few employment opportunities.
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